Los Angeles daily herald., 1887-09-28
THIS TOURIST BUSINESS.

To those who know anything about
the south of Europe, and the Alpine
and other mountain regions of that
quarter of the globe. the future OF Los
Angeles is as assured as present fact,
and is as brilliant as imagination can
picture. The shores of Italy, and OF
Southern France, are yearly visited
by many thousands of people who
come from all other parts of the world.
Fashion, of course, cuts some figure
a large one-in this matter; but the
foundation under the whole thing is
one of solid merit, and of dire neces-
sity. This small region of the earth
is blessed with really salubrious and
pleasant climate. Few parts of the
world can boast of this matchless
endowment. Heat or cold in exces-
sive degree make life more or less ola
burden, in all our sphere except few
eclectic spots of narrow area. The
healthy person is i'll at ease where the
mercury is either frozen in the bulb
or boiling over the top of the tube.
Under such circumstances life be-
CONS at once intolerable and impossi-
BILE to the sick. Hence the necessity
of seeking region of mild climatic
character, and hence the prosperity
assured to such contracted areas as
heaven smiles on with this endow-
ment. In all of Europe there is
the Riviera, and there is little strip
in the south of France where winter
is not Arctic in it's cold; and there are
the high Alps and Pyrenees, where
summer is not torrid in its heat. To
those sections flock all who can, or all
who must from the rest of the world.
The number of people who consult
only pleasure in these trips is large,
vet it is limited to that class which is
in affluent, or at least independent
circumstances. The number of those
who by reason of failing health are
driven to seek relief from severe eli
matte extremes is large. But neither
of these classes is as numerous in
Europe as in the United States. In
the former quarter of the globe all
who dwell in the southern half have
all these advantages at home, and this
consideration has caused a dense popu-
lation to settle all along the. districts
above mapped out. As matter OF fact
the crowds who flock to the Riviera,
to the banks of the Rhine,
and to the heights of the Alps
and Pyrenees, come for the
most part from two or three nations OF
the Old World. One meetsfew Scam
dinayians there. Nor does Germany
send so many as one might think.
The French and Italians are at home
there, and do not join the tourist
bands. The people of Spain have
their own delightful climate. Russia
with her inhospitable winters drives
forth a large contingent to sojourn at
Nice. Mentone, Florence and Naples,
to the shores of Lake Maggiore to-day,
and to those of Lake Geneva to-
morrow. England sends the greatest
number of globe-trotters to the Con-
tinent, and America ranks next.
The result of this climate-seeking
for the rich for pleasure and the sick
for health is plainly apparent in every
town in the regions indicated above.
All along the Riviera, in
each village iii Southern France,
along all the small lakes of
these countries, at Interlachen and
Lausanne, at Geneva, along the slopes
of the Alps and in the Businesses Of the
Pyrenees, hotels and resorts swarm
and multiply until the whole popula-
linn has been converted into hotel
or into some enterprise more
mr. less connected with the tourist
business. At Interlachen, Lausanne,
[nterbruennen and such places of re-
sort we find half dozen fine hostel
res in each town; and it is this pleas
and health-seeking crowd ]